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deadpolitics |
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November 24, 2009 02:09:03pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: JGB new release |
I bet Jerry totally enjoyed just being able to rip it up instead of leading the band through the song! Just like a great part of the reason I love Bobby songs is what Jerry does with them because he's not busy singing!
Pre-hiatus, Keith's playing is superb and super complementary. Post-hiatus, I can hear him less and less until fall '78 where he's really falling out of the mix with the GD. It is less enjoyable to listen to this time period because it just seems like something is missing, though the rest of the band was on quite often.
I think this brings up an interesting JGB and GD comparison because Keith G was playing quite well with JGB at the same time that (IMO) he was really starting to suck it up with the GD. See 10-28-78 JGB for what some say is a peak for the Jerry's band in the Keith-on-keyboards era.
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deadpolitics |
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November 24, 2009 02:15:34pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: JGB new release |
I had never heard any JGB from '75 until I finally joined btree.org this summer. Jerry's tone (the fattest I ever heard from any year of JGB) is so clear and his playing is so eloquent. There is very little of the "shredding" more-note-per-minute technique that he started appplying more in the later 70's and early 80's. To me, every note just has more purpose and intention put behind it in these earlier years.
Nicky Hopkins is a beast on the keyboards and very present in the mix - more than pretty much all other keyboards I've heard with Jerry. Ron Tutt brings a nice heavy drumming style to the affairs.
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jerlouvis |
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November 24, 2009 04:12:03pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: JGB new release |
In response to Jerry's Beard and deadpolitics,all valid points and well taken.As far as Keith's role in the post hiatus decline of the bands improvisational skills,I think that was a band wide problem,not something Keith created.As far as I'm concerned after 74' they were a shadow of themselves.
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